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Cued Speech was created for use
by families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Cued
Speech provides cued listening, cued phonemes, cued languages,
and cued speechreading. Research and experience have proven
the benefits of Cued Speech use for people who are deaf or
hard of hearing in the development of
Speech-language pathologists and special educators saw the
results of Cued Speech use with children with hearing loss
and began the expansion of its use to children and adults
with other needs. These individuals may have no disabilities
or may have one or more disabilities, including but not limited
to:
- auditory neuropathy / dys-synchrony
- autism
- apraxia
- cerebral palsy
- deaf-blindness
- developmental disabilities
- learning disabilities.
Cued Speech is the unique link in sensory integration, bringing
together sound, sight, kinesthesia, and motor movement at
the phonemic level of language in any setting. Children and
adults with and without hearing loss benefit from the multi-sensory
nature of Cued Speech for a variety of purposes, such as
- phonemic stimulation for listening, speech, language and
literacy
- presenting phonics to beginning readers
- learning the phonemes of an added spoken language
- speech instruction for articulation and disfluencies
- language development
- auditory discrimination and processing
- oral-motor patterning
- and more…
The following articles describe in more depth some of
the many uses of Cued Speech:
Speech-Language
Pathologist Uses Cued Speech for Hearing Children
By Anne Marie Dziekonski
Cued Speech for
Special Children By Pamela Beck
Cued Speech and Autism, Pervasive
Developmental Disorders By Pamela Beck
Cued Speech and Down Syndrome
By Pamela Beck
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